> Alan,
>
> A> well I'm all for switches that make for more common sense. If
> MS can say "OK
> A> that's the standards... but users want X so we'll give it to them", why
> A> can't FB? Let teh standards compliant die-hards have their way
> but let the
> A> bulk of users have their's as well.
>
> AFAIK users are fine with "is distinct from". Some would use a more
> compact form, but at least the feature's there. Perhaps the same could
> be said about the "create table as select" feature? After all the
> feature is there: you can create tables and certainly you can select
> already. :-)
>
> Ciao
> --
> Nando Dessena

agreed... I wonder why they didn't make the form:
IS ABSOLUTELY REALLY QUITE DISTINCT FROM
... I mean it's only a matter of typing some more text.
Alan